Mexico's president will accept millions of deportations from Trump,

[Unladen Swallow]

including non-Mexicans. WTF.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Here's the AP article:

Mexico opens possibility of receiving non-Mexican deportees from Trump

Updated 4:41 PM EST, January 3, 2025

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing that in cases where the U.S. would not return migrants to their countries “we can collaborate through different mechanisms.” She did not offer details, but Mexico could limit it to certain nationalities or request compensation from the U.S. to move the deportees from Mexico to their home countries.

“There will be time to speak with the United States government if these deportations really happen, but we will receive them here, we are going to receive them properly and we have a plan,” she said. Sheinbaum had prefaced her comments by saying Mexico is not in favor of them.

Trump has promised to begin massive deportations. Critics have observed that there will be logistical challenges to significantly ramping up from the already high deportation numbers.

/snip

[Hugin]

4. I have this eerie feeling that's where I'll end up...

I won’t go into details, but given the forced contrived spaghetti logic of the Racist-in-Chief. It’s a non-zero probability.

Fingers crossed.

I fully expect to see Mittens and maybe Cancun Rafael there as well.

[Rstrstx]

27. They were already "taking'" them back in 2022-3

Venezuelans would get deported from the US to Mexico, usually Chiapas, and they were then given 24 hours to get out of the country (Guatemala is a short distance away). A lot of them would stay in Mexico working illegally and bribing immigration authorities until they could cross again, while others are still there working illegally.

My guess is this is some sort of negotiating tactic wrt Trump’s upcoming tariff proposals.

[Firestorm49]

2. Not having inside knowledge but only a gut instinct of cloak and dagger, I'd say that somebody got to her.

[Rebl2]

5. Makes

you wonder since she said recently they would not take any immigrants. Something must have been promised to her? I would not rely on promises made by trump or any of his people. Also could be she was threatened.

[LisaL]

7. There were always going to take Mexican deportees.

Sounds like she wants a payment for non-Mexican deportees.

[LeftInTX]

17. Mexico is having some tough economic times right now.

She is close with her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. I remember AMLO's love-hate relationship with Trump.

[DeepWinter]

18. Yea

Sounds like she's open to taking all the Central American deportees for cold hard $$$.

Money makes the world go round. Truely.

[FalloutShelter]

8. Just a guess...

perhaps she does not want to see her people exterminated in camps.
If this is going to happen, repatriation is by far the better option.

[LisaL]

9. She never said they wouldn't accept Mexican citizens.

NT

[DeepWinter]

19. No ones getting exterminated. Hyprebole.

[FalloutShelter]

20. We'll see.

[AlanAdam]

26. Thanks for calling out tedious comments like this one.

[werdna]

3. Building an army, perhaps.

Given the threats from Trmp to invade...

[Walleye]

6. Damn, the fields and orchards are going to be empty this summer. Is it gonna be all pick your own?

And who are they going to get to catch and slaughter the chickens. Do these maga people know that this is gonna cause their chicken wings and guacamole to get expensive, quite a bit, if they can get it at all.

[Sequoia]

25. And the grapes

Surrounded by vineyards with many workers. Wine country will certainly be affected.

[Emile]

10. So how much did the Conman offer Mexico of our tax dollars

to accept these people?

[dalton99a]

11. Mexico will make America pay for it

Experts estimate that Mexico will need to invest millions of dollars to provide care, food, housing and transportation for deported migrants, as well as for those arriving from other countries.

Banxico, Mexico's National Bank, reported that migrants in the U.S. sent $63.3 billion to Mexico in 2023. From January to October of this year alone, the amount has already reached nearly $55 billion.

https://www.newsweek.com/mass-deportations-wreck-mexico-economy-2009342

[Lovie777]

12. Look towards the money....

shithole do ignore payment of money promised tho. Like the wall.

[Emile]

15. Maybe they eat pizza with a spoon?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

14. The Grand Wizard is just shuffling the chairs on the Titanic.

[NickB79]

16. Mexico's birthrate has dropped below replacement levels, just like the rest of the planet

https://mexicobusiness.news/health/news/birth-rate-mexico-declines-mirroring-global-phenomenon

The nations that will succeed in the 21st century are the ones that either have a healthy population with a strong, young workforce, or ones that turn heavily to automation.

At the same time, China has been courting Mexico heavily as a nation to build new factories in, and new factories require millions of new factory workers.

Accepting millions of new immigrants positions Mexico to become an industrial powerhouse in the subsequent decades, as China and India both see their workforces age and decline.

The US, on the other hand, will be hard-pressed to maintain economic growth with a shrinking population. Our birth rate has been below replacement levels for some time now, and only the effects of immigration have powered our economy these last 20 yr.

[Aristus]

21. I'm not a demographer, but I would think that a declining population

would mean less strain on the national resources, not to mention the higher wages that come with a labor deficit.

Do you think these things could mitigate the pitfalls of a declining population?

[EX500rider]

24. Generally it's the opposite

Declining birth rate means more seniors to care for with less workers as a tax base and falling production due to smaller labor pool.

[uponit7771]

29. Declining birth rate also means less accumulation in economy

[Oneironaut]

22. Let's send Mexico our most skilled workers.

Technology, farming, administrative, military, etc. Let’s round up all the immigrants with skills that help this country and instead send them to a different country! It’ll work out great!

[maxrandb]

23. Media fucking BULLSHIT again

That FUCKING "headline" is about as factual as Donnie Dipshit "winning in a landslide".

This type of horseshit is NOT an accident.

This FUCKING BULLSHIT will have a zillion FUCKING "twits" on that Nazi social media site, before one FUCKING person points out that's NOT what the President of Mexico actually said.

[Unladen Swallow]

28. wow

[uponit7771]

30. The US M$M capitulation is getting worse